New Delhi: By deciding to involve Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in its Punjab campaign, the BJP has invited the ire of anti-Badal parties.
And the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) is also clearly not amused. The party on Saturday decided to maintain a safe distance from its ally, the BJP, when Modi comes to Punjab.
Modi is scheduled to hold public meetings in Ludhiana and Jalandhar—where the BJP lost all the seats it fought in the last Assembly elections—on Sunday.
A senior SAD leader said he believed there was no need for the BJP to have roped in Modi in Punjab, where a sizeable section sees a parallel between the Gujarat and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. "Those (Modi's) meetings will be BJP's own," PTI quoted him as saying.
The party's opponents like Prakash Singh Badal and Simranjit Singh Mann pledged to hold statewide protests against Modi's visit.
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